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A Planet's Horizontal Speed Changes Of Planet From The Sun

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A planet’s orbital speed changes depending on how far the planet is from the Sun. The closer a planet is to the Sun, the stronger the Sun's gravitational pull is pulling it and the faster the planet moves and or orbits. The farther it is from the Sun, the weaker the Sun's gravitational pull is and the slower it moves in its orbit.The orbit of a planet around the Sun, is not a perfect circle. It is an ellipse, a “flattened” circle. The Sun (or the center of the planet) holds one focus of the ellipse. A focus is one of the two internal points that help determine the shape of an ellipse. The distance from one focus to any point on the ellipse and then back to the second focus is always the same. The orbital process is apart of the 3 Kepler laws.1)All

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